Quote Collection
How to avoid conviction – Ichabod Spencer
Man can avoid conviction by truth, just as he can avoid burning by fire — getting out of its way, refusing contact with it — and no other way. So of the frost, so of the light of the sun, so of the thunder. These may be shunned, but not directly resisted. The truth is just like them.
– Ichabod Spencer –
from the sermon The Truth Held in Unrighteousness: Romans 1:18
God presence is indispensable – Ian Thomas
Man was so engineered by God that the presence of the Creator within the creature is indispensable to his humanity.
– Ian Thomas –
Singing lies? – AW Tozer
Christians don’t tell lies—they just go to church and sing them.
– AW Tozer –
Vital Union with Christ – JC Ryle
We cannot have flowers without roots, or fruit without trees. We cannot have the fruit of the Spirit without vital union with Christ, and a new creation within.
– JC Ryle –
from Expository Thoughts on the Gospels,1856
A person of integrity – Billy Graham
[Integrity] means a person is the same on the inside as he or she claims to be on the outside. He is the same person alone in a hotel room a thousand miles from home as he is at work or in his community or with his family. A man of integrity can be trusted.
– Billy Graham –
Only God can make you godly – Ian Thomas
The moment you come to realize that only God can make a man godly, you are left with no option but to find God, and to know God, and to let God be God in and through you.
– Ian Thomas –
Strong in the Lord – Henry Scougal
Let us be strong in the Lord, and the power of His might, for He it is that shall tread down our enemies.
– Henry Scougal –
from The Life of God in the Soul of Man
God or sin must die in me – Oswald Chambers
God or sin must die in me. The one elementary Bible truth we are in danger of forgetting is that the Gospel of God is addressed to men as sinners, and nothing else.
– Oswald Chambers –
Prayer yields more than work – Andrew Murray
Time spent in prayer will yield more than that given to work. Prayer alone gives work its worth and its success. Prayer opens the way for God Himself to do His work in us and through us. Let our chief work, as God’s messengers, be intercession; in it, we secure the presence and power of God to go with us.
– Andrew Murray –
from The Ministry of Intercession